Good Stock Strange Blood

t]o excise life from the relations of power.’ I want everyone I know to read this book.” —Anna Moschovakis “Dawn Lundy Martin is a young essential voice in American poetry—one many of us have been waiting for.” —Diesel Bookstore Oakland “Martin purposely challenges with tangential images and fractured lines to look inward at racial and personal trauma.” —Pittsburgh City Paper “Good Stock Strange Blood is a subtle and intriguing meditation, original in form, experimental in theme, and curious and probing in content.” —NewPages “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poetry is eviscerated and eviscerating. In Good Stock Strange Blood, she languages violence and the varied textures and hues of systemic racism and intergenerational trauma while creating a new state of being, simultaneously cauterized and free.” —Full Stop